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Direct linkHualde, Jose Ignacio – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Bullock and Gerfen show that two of the last speakers of French in Frenchville, Pennsylvania, systematically replace the French front mid round vowel (in words like "deux, neuf") with the rhoticized schwa of American English, their dominant language. As the authors argue, it is unlikely that this sound change would have arisen in the…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, French, North American English, Phonology
